To a certain degree sacredness is in the eye of the beholder / Act IV

The fourth version of the project, Act IV, is condensed into four conceptual elements—Modulor, Centaur, Material M and Cast—whose presence transforms space into a static mise en scène.

Modulor and Centaur—appearing in Le Corbusier’s and Pasolini’s oeuvre respectively—refer back to the embodiment of two different modes of perception: the rational and the mystical. Modulor’s anthropocentric idealism is “deformed” by its adaptation to the artist’s body proportions. Centaur is conceived in relation to the measurements of the Golden Section. The latter—an act of mathematical translation of the intangible nature of things—is materialised here as an overarching line in space. Through their scale and spatial interrelations, the two structures attain an intermediary function between theatrical device and architectural fragment.

Material M and Cast appear in Act IV as objects whose unfolding in space is grounded on the notion of a repetitive act. The pattern of the Material M textile, a recurring motif in the project, is created through the reproduction of the typeface from the 1969 Medea film release poster. Its current version, produced by hand-made monoprints on leather. Cast revisits the notion of the vessel as a container of substance as well as concepts. In the installation, the geometrical cement forms originate from one primary object. They allude both to the loss of that original ideal form as well as its substituted content.

The objects, actualised as an interplay between line, volume and surface, produce through their materiality and staging a series of spatial and contextual occupations. Fleeing from a single coherent perspective, they suggest fragmented views into fictionalised narratives of the past and unresolved scenarios of the present.

Diploma Award 2015, Sculpture Studios, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna